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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5885, 17 July 1890, Page 2

]m the Englishman becoming , offoto aa a bu..iuo' n s man ? (asks the Pall Mall Budget). A writer in a Manchester cuiitemjjorary bewails the fact that there are so few ManuhestiT men, liorn and bred, at the head of the great bueiaess tirins of Oottonopoliß.

This dearth of the home product is especially ' notable among the shippers, the vase export trade of Manchester having drifted into the hands of Scotchmen and foreigners. Wherever the trade is carried on in the English language the calculating Scotchman captures the business, and wherever a knowledge of foreign languages is necessary the linguistic and frugal foreigner secures a hold. " Thus three-fourths of the Indian, Chiua, Canadian, and Australasian trade is in the hands of Scotchmen ; the Germans are fast appropriating the whole of the trade of South and Central America and the Continent of Europe; and the Armenians and Greeks are. in full possession of tho trade of the Levant and Mediterranean. As a merchant the Englishman is thus being ousted, but it is satisfactory to learn that he is holding his own as a manufacturer, for which he has a marked aptitude. It would be well, however, for him not to rely upon any sphere being , beyond competition, and to rid himself of his apathy and indifference.